Monthly Report April

Written by Teacher Margaret

Jambo y'all. Trust you are well and keeping safe during this period of Corona virus. We too are trying to keep safe and to stay home despite the tough economic times. As you all know most of our families live from hand to mouth and cannot afford to buy food in large quantities. So we are hardest hit when it comes to staying at home. Recently as I was giving food and soap to families, I could see the fear in the eyes of the parents. Fear of how they would survive this period when the kids are not in school. The uncertainty caused by this virus is very evidently witnessed. As we all know, our happy day kids mostly depends on the food we give in school and do right now parents are overwhelmed by the stay at home situation. Most of our parents earn less than a dollar a day and currently working isn't allowed ( they are labourers in people's houses and a nearby quarry.) It is so hard for the families especially now that Kenya is reporting new cases every day and we might soon have a total lockdown. My prayer is that a cure or maybe a vaccine is soon discovered. If the cases escalate then we might be hit hard. We don't know when schools will be reopened but we just have to wait and pray.

We are grateful that we were able to give some food to our families. May each one of you who made it possible be blessed always.
Our March / April budget is as follows:

Salaries.... 75,000

Insurance...14,000
Water...........3,000
TOTAL......92000
-.Pre paid salaries 38000
= 54,000


It is my humble request that if possible we get the usual food money so that we can give more food, soap and tissues to our happy day families. Our monthly food costs approximately 50,000.
We will appreciate. 

Thanks and take care of yourselves.
Much love from us

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Monthly Report March

Written by Teacher Margaret

Jambo y'all. Trust you are all well and good. We at Happy Day are also doing well and we are grateful to you all for the continued support. 

We are at the middle of the first term and 2020. Much changes have happened with the change of system in the education ministry. We are copping well though the system is a bit demanding on all parties including teacher's, children, parents and the community at large. We have improvised most of the learning materials and teaching aid for our children to learn better. We have also had to buy some but this has proved to be hard especially on the parents. This month of much we require every parent to buy a scrap book for their child @ 500 kshs. We know most of them will not be able to afford but we are optimistic that they will try since we have let them know that the system involves a lot of bought items which the school can't always provide.  

Our staff are doing well and I am very grateful to them for their dedication to the children at Happy Day.

Our FEB / MARCH budget is as follows:
SALARIES...... 75000
CHAI.............24000
FOOD......26000
FUEL.......2400
WATER....... 3000
STATIONARY..... 10000

TOTAL........ 140,400


SPECIAL REQUEST FOR SCRAPBOOKS....
We assume that around 20 parents will afford to buy the books for their children. We request that the school can buy for the remaining 30 children because they have to have them . This will cost us

30 books @ 500 = 15000.
This is a kind request.

Have a blessed new month and be blessed always for your continued support to the happy day family